Monster Trucks Patrol
- The Monster Trucks Patrol is a team of Autobot Micromasters from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Left to right: Hydraulic, Slow Poke, Heavy Tread, Big Hauler
Sunday Sunday SUNDAY!!! Gear-grinding, shape-changing, micro-robot MADNESS!!! Monster Trucks Patrol madness!!! SEE four Autobot Micromasters RIP into action against the dastardly doers of destructive deeds, the DECEPTICONS!!!
Geeeeeeet ready for the Monsters Truck Patrol!!! Tread-Head seats are STILL JUST $4.99!!! FOUR NINETY-NINE!!! You're paying for the whole seat but you'll ONLY NEED THE EDGE!!! Featuring:
- Big Hauler - he's lean, he's GREEN and he's MEEEEAN!!
- Heavy Tread - the wheelie-popping, nitro-burning, prank-playing FUNNY CAR!!
- Hydraulic - he leads the pack, CRUSHING anything in his way!!
- Slow Poke - he's a truck, he's a robot, he's yellow, he's powering through everything in his path!!!
They're AWESOME!!!! awesome awesome awesome
Be there, or be square!
Fiction
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
The Monster Truck Patrol had chosen sides to work with the Autobots by the time Countdown returned to Cybertron roughly three million years ago, but it is unclear whether they had officially joined as a patrol yet. Hydraulic and Big Hauler joined Crunch and the Hot Rod Patrol in rescuing Roadbuster from a Decepticon attack, and used their Cybertronian horsepower to drag him back to base. Destined for Nothing
Toys
The Transformers
- Monster Trucks Patrol (Micromaster Patrol, 1990/1991)
- Takara ID number: C-361
- Accessories: Micro Trailer # 1 (Takara release only)
- The Monster Trucks Patrol was sold as a carded 4-pack at the $5 price point. Like most 1990 Micromasters, their transformations are very homogeneous, basically consisting of flipping out the rear of the vehicle to form the legs, then standing the robot up.
- Save for Slow Poke. You flip out his FRONT end for legs. Care must be taken, such a radical departure from the norm can be jarring for the uninitiated.
Notes
- The team is called "Monster Trucks Patrol", with a plural-"s", on its toy packaging, but lacks the plural-"s" in the Hasbro toy catalog included with all the toys released in 1990. When Adam Patyk and James McDonough were writing the More Than Meets The Eye profiles series for Dreamwave, they presumably consulted the toy catalog (scans of which were much easier to come by at the time than photos of the toys' packaging), and hence used that spelling as well.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Big Truck Team (ビッグトラックチーム Biggu Torakku Chīmu)
- French: Patrouille De Poids Lourds ("Heavy Truck Patrol")
- Italian: Pattuglia Pionieri ("Pioneering Patrol")
